.uk / trademarks

[findtim]

i didn't want to steal the other thread, based on snoopy's link to the PDF realting to who is entitled to the new .uk.

SO, looking to the future if it is 5 yrs away ??? what is going to happen now... right now?

someone has the .net.au but the .com.au (dca ) drops but when the new.au arrives the .net.au ( dna ) can get it first.

OR, if i own the dna and trademark it then even though i only registered it last year then i also can get the new .au first.

SO what happens? start buying dna's ? start tradmarking your dca's ?

or, stop buying drops if the dna is taken ? or buy the dca on drop and trademark it.

its basically a S^*Tfight and you may laugh at this post now , i just hope the UK don't do it.

tim

 

[chris]

Not sure, I suppose it would need to be in the policy.

Maybe length of ownership might play a part, or maybe auction?

 

[findtim]

auction would be another money grab, just think about your best sites and ask yourself do you want to go into an auction for the new one ? aahhh NO !

if you have paid GOOD money for a domain and beaten someone to it then what do you think is going to happen at the auction?

tim

 

[snoopy]

i didn't want to steal the other thread, based on snoopy's link to the PDF realting to who is entitled to the new .uk.

SO, looking to the future if it is 5 yrs away ??? what is going to happen now... right now?

someone has the .net.au but the .com.au (dca ) drops but when the new.au arrives the .net.au ( dna ) can get it first.

OR, if i own the dna and trademark it then even though i only registered it last year then i also can get the new .au first.

SO what happens? start buying dna's ? start tradmarking your dca's ?

or, stop buying drops if the dna is taken ? or buy the dca on drop and trademark it.

its basically a S^*Tfight and you may laugh at this post now , i just hope the UK don't do it.

tim

The PDF is the old proposal & the new proposal seems to not have anything to do with trademarks.

Personally I wouldn't prepare based on what ifs. The current proposal is a major negative for .co.uk names that have dropped in the last few years. I don't know that it is a negative for the .com.au drop market, maybe it is a small negative.

If .au were 5 years away (huge assumption) the best course of action is probably to sell .com.au domains & do something else with the money. I'm not going to be assuming that though. I think at the moment it is just a potential future risk factor because it is something AUDA could bring out if the felt the need to raise income.

I think the .co.uk market has not fared well since all this started. Some seem happy with the new proposal I think only because it clears the air in what was a very confused market & is at least better than the last proposal. At the end of the day they've now got triple the holding costs to deal with for the same level of demand.

 

[findtim]

"5 years"

so when then? 2 yrs or never?

tim

 

[snoopy]

"5 years"

so when then? 2 yrs or never?

tim

I would guess 15 years or more. If I thought 2 years I'd be selling up ASAP. From what I have read of things the .co.uk market has had a severe contraction because of this.